Dr. Lucky Sekhon

But ultimately what your body is doing is not dependent on numbers.

You're releasing a signal from your brain and only getting one egg to mature and be released.

So someone with a high egg count versus someone with a low egg count,

They're on equal footing.

They're all ovulating only one egg at a time.

Is that because it's egg quality that you're talking about now?

Exactly.

So I'm talking about egg quantity right now, which you can check your AMH level, which is a blood test, a hormone test.

Anti-malarian hormone.

Okay.

So when we look at the ultrasound and we count what's been removed from the pantry this month, and we kind of get a sense of how many eggs are available for ovulation, we know only one of them will be selected to ovulate.

But AMH is a hormone that's produced by all the little cells that line each of the bubbles around each egg.

So if you see a lot on ultrasound, you're going to have a higher AMH.

But both of those are quantitative markers.

And the only reason I care about those as a fertility doctor is if you're considering egg freezing or if you're considering an egg retrieval because you need to go through IVF for whatever reason.

Because it tells me how many I have to work with, what's in my toolkit.

And obviously, the more tools I have to work with, the better the outcome, right?

It tends to be more efficient.

But the most important thing is quality.

And we have no direct test for quality in 2025.